"This was my very first NIИ show. I just really started getting into their music last summer. I fell in love with their music after I found a copy of PHM at a record store for $2 and picked it up just because I thought the cover was cool. I took it home, listened to it, and was absolutely blown away. My favorite song that I heard on the tour was either the remix of Closer, or The Perfect Drug (Josh's drum solo blew my mind!!!). Over the last couple of months I've had some pretty bad struggles on-and-off with my mental health, and NIИ's music has truly been a huge part of helping me get through this. Seeing them live truly healed a part of me."

"I first heard Terrible Lie when I was 8 years old and the outtro was the coolest most different sound I had ever heard in music. It sounded like something from another planet to me. I didn't start listening to NIN on a regular basis until the lead up to With Teeth. My first show was Coachella 2005 and the three northern California Peel It Back shows were #18, #19, and #20. The production was incredible innovative and fresh."

"This tour was the first time I had the chance to see NIN after being a fan for twenty years (my older sibling introduced me to them when I was a kid, after With Teeth came out). I ended up being able to go to 14 shows with my best friend. The first leg I drove us up to Cleveland and saw the show for the first time in my home state and then we took a proper road trip in my car all the way down to Nashville, took the scenic route and stopped at the old house in New Orleans on our way to the shows in Houston and Fort Worth. We took polaroids the whole time on the road. I actually met my best friend during an inpatient hospital stay at the end of 2024 and I introduced her to NIN. I was going to take my life after I had gotten raped earlier that year and NIN is what got me through it. This tour restored my hope for life and made me feel at home in my body and this world again. The second leg we started close to home again in Columbus and I got to see one of my favorite songs live (the Wretched). We ended up going back to Texas again and saw so many familiar faces but we made new friends all over the country. In Sacramento, I had the most blessed opportunity to meet Trent and it was the best day of my life. I also got to see She's Gone Away which was amazing because Laura Palmer means the world to me as a survivor. I'll never forget this tour for as long as I live."

"I had the time of my life. I finally got to follow the band around for the bulk of the tour. We got a setlist that we gave to a friend because it was his birthday, I got a hug from Robin at my 50th show, scored a mystery tee in DC, and went out with a bang in San Francisco. I don't think I'll ever see this band live again since my body is breaking down at an alarming rate, but I'll be forever grateful for every single show I've seen. The only thing missing was Deep followed immediately by Even Deeper."

"These were not my first shows, but my first shows with my kid. He traveled for the first time to the California shows on leg 2. It was in celebration of him getting accepted to college and becoming an adult. I've made new friends, met up with old ones, and told my crazy life stories in line (which is one of my favorite parts, because watching others laugh with how absurd things are for me? it's kind of cathartic!) I've been a NIN fan since 2003ish, and I fell in love during the Year Zero ARG. That album led me to becoming a bit of an activist, and fundamentally changed who I was as a person. Hearing (You Made It Feel Like) Home was amazing (because it's extremely rare when I don't know lyrics!), but also devastating with the bit of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence due to a personal history with that song - it was the song playing when I found my cat Nero had a tumor on his jaw that would factor in his passing just 2 months later. NIN is the reason why I have some of the best friends in the world, and have had some of the most amazing experiences. While I didn't get anything particularly special, I did make some small 'end of tour' gifts for the band for the 2nd Forum and Sacramento shows. I'm grateful for the music, the people, the times, the places. I can't wait for more."